James Marsters Addresses Returning As Brainiac In Tom Welling & Michael Rosenbaum"s Smallville Sequel Show

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This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.With a Smallville sequel TV show in very early development, James Marsters reflects on potentially coming back as the DC character Brainiac.
Screen Rant recently interviewed Marsters for his new movie Abruptio, and asked about his legacy as Brainiac in Smallville. Since Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum are developing an animated sequel series, Marsters was asked if he would be open to reprising the role of Brainiac or Brainiac 5 (who shows up in Smallville season 10). Not only does Marsters call Smallville the "most intelligent character" depiction of Superman, but he would love to come back for the sequel, sharing the following:

James Marsters: Oh, yes, definitely. Definitely. I think that Smallville was the most intelligent character version of Superman that I"ve ever seen. Superman is a very difficult character to write because he"s invulnerable. Heroism is when I help somebody, even when I have to sacrifice something to help them. That"s the definition, and when you have a hero movie, you have the very most exciting part [which] is when the hero has to risk his life to save someone or help someone. And that"s just impossible with Superman. He"s invulnerable. He"s going to be fine unless you pull out Kryptonite. Every Superman movie does that.
There"s Kryptonite somewhere, and he"s got to risk death to do his thing. But with the television series, you can"t pull out Kryptonite every week. It gets redundant so fast. It gets cheesy. They sidestepped all that by not focusing on Clark"s physical vulnerability, which there is almost none of. It was all about the fact that he was a teenager and he was vulnerable to everything, and they could explore [the] emotional vulnerability for Superman. I just thought, "Okay, you"ve solved it. That"s what to do." And they were able to go ten years on that show and not be redundant, not be repetitive. Following that, I would love to do more of that.

Abruptio is now in theaters.
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